Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

120 APRIL 1952 ClOSeupS— What filmers are doing Two New Yorkers were on the list of winners in the annual contest for amateur films sponsored at Cannes, France, by the Cine-Club de Cannes, ACL. Joseph J. Harley, FACL, the League's President, was honored with a cup award in the Scenario Class for Little Intruder. Frank Fisher, ACL, of the local T & V Movie Club, ACL, received an Honor Diploma in the same class for his 8mm. production, Magical Trip Through Florida. \tVell! We don't know whether to regard this occurrence as a compliment or a contretemps. But the plain, unadorned facts are these: An airmail letter from Caracas, Venezuela, addressed simply to "Mr. The President, Amateur Cinema League, Springville, Utah, U.S.A.." was delivered without question recently to Glen H. Turner, ACL, of that city. . . . Hm-m-m! Herbert Shumway, ACL, author of our two-part article Let's Make A Nature Movie, has been filming off and on, he says, for about five years. Started in with stills during his Army service in Europe, and later followed the familiar switch to our more animated medium. Shumway's present camera, as you can see, is a Filmo Sportster 8, on which he uses for his nature filming either a IV2 inch telephoto or the standard V2 inch objective equipped with the supplementary Portra lenses discussed in this issue. His first nature films, however, were shot on an old Cine-Kodak Model 20. It has been in the family for nearly two decades, is still going strong and even today he uses it as a second camera on occasion. On the personal side, Shumway is 32, single, employed by First National Stores and a member of the Franklin County Camera Club at his home in Charles Cetto HERBERT SHUMWAY, ACL, author of Let's Make a Nature Movie, with the Filmo Sportster he used in producing Nature Campers, Honorable Mention award winner in ACL's 1951 contest. Greenfield, Mass. He was club secretary in 1951 and an ACL Honorable Mention award winner with Nature Campers. "I have always liked the out-of-doors," he says, "so it was natural for me to try taking movies of the birds, bees and bugs." His other interests are bicycling, square dancing and making gadgets for his camera. Prompted, perhaps, by our November shot of Al "Brush-Face" Morton, FACL, Paul Hunger, ACL, has sent us the accompanying snap of his own hirsute splendor. Before you assume that Mr. H. has gone native and should be read out of the lodge, let us add that he is in New Guinea as staff cameraman with a Netherlands Government seismic expedition. During quieter periods, when the earth refuses to quake. Mr. Hunger trains his Bolex H-16 on Jacob, the white cockatoo, and other examples of native fauna and flora. People and Places: Charles F. Teed, ACL, proprietor for years of the Teed Photo Studio, in Sydney. N. Y., has moved to Binghamton where he is doing news photography. William Dryden, a recent visitor at ACL headquarters, is curator of the American Museum of Atomic Energy, at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Mildred J. Caldwell, FACL, of Long Beach, Calif., put on a one-woman screening recently of her award-winning 8mm. films at Palm Springs Thunderbird Country Club, where she is on the staff. Through a donation by Dr. A. G. Chittick. ACL, of Frankfort, Ind., an almost complete set of Movie Makers magazines are now on file in the Baker Library of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H. Received in the spring of 1951. Dr. Chittick's gift has since been supplemented by copies from the incomplete collection of J. B. Watson, jr., ACL. director of Dartmouth College Films. "The gift," states Richard W. Morin, college librarian, "makes a very worth while addition to our already excellent and extensive collection of books in the motion picture field." Across the threshold: Yves Bouget, vicepresidenl of Cinema Monaco, amateur cine club in fabulous Monte Carlo. on I he French Riviera, came to town before the holidays and stayed through the end of January, spending considerable time with local New York cine groups . . . M. D. Ashley, ACL, and H. L. Hutchinson, ACL, of Norfolk. Va., en route to Canada on vacation, PAUL HUNGER, ACL, now in New Guinea with a Dutch seismic purty, poses with pet Jacob. called on us. Mr. Hutchinson is especially interested in the complete home laboratory for processing his own films. Washingtonians who have stopped by in recent weeks include Louis Knowles, ACL, of the Agriculture Amateur Movie Makers, ACL; Karl Hoffman. ACL, doing the city with his Bolex H-16; R. H. Parvin, ACL, secretarytreasurer of the Washington Society of Cinematographers; Clarence Lahde. ACL, who brought along his fine 16mm. film on Washington (he's also a member of WSC) ; P. A. Simpson, ACL. also WSC, a dairyman interested in doing a series of TV shorts on his business, and finally the WSC president, Harrison F. Houghton, ACL. Although we saw the pictures some time ago, we still relish the pleasure derived from the films of Japan shot by Lt. Col. W. K. Payne, ACL, now back in this country and living in Blackstone, Va. The richly detailed study he made on film is like a vast, intricately woven tapestry. We hope to have another opportunity to look at the completed film, which Colonel Payne was still in the process of editing at the time he sent it to us for review. Another exceptional picture we had the pleasure of seeing recently was that produced by L. J. Shafitz, of Louisville. Ky., on the activities of the Kosair Crippled Children's Hospital in that city. Mr. Shafitz planned, filmed, di RICHARD W. MORIN, librarian at Dartmouth's Baker Library, inspects one of the bound volumes of MOVIE MAKERS donated to the college last year by Dr. A. G. Chittick, ACL.